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Tools such as blockchain, trackable coded labels and a trusted trade scheme could build supply chains with “verifiable truths” that used data more effectively than people and avoided customs friction, according to James Canham, head of border services at Accenture.

Such technologies have been touted as a part of the so-called "Maximum Facilitation" system option for future UK customs processing, and put forward by Brexiteer MPs in the European Research Group in their outline for post-Brexit arrangement for the Irish border.